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...Smith sees it, the best history of the Revolution was written by a participant, David Ramsay, in the decade after the war. Ramsay concluded that the chief cause of the Revolution was implicit in the Stamp Act: the British Parliament wanted more power over the colonies than the colonies were willing to allow. But later historians were not content with this sensible explanation. George Bancroft turned the war into a moral crusade for freedom and made poor old bumbling George III a sinister villain. Arthur Schlesinger Sr. saw the war as a class struggle in which colonial merchants were pitted...
...Univer sity of Massachusetts argues persuasively that the opposition of the bishops to Hitler was limited to occasional protests against his violations of the concordat with the Vatican. "At no time," he concludes, "did the Church challenge the legitimacy of the Nazi regime or give her explicit or implicit approval to the various attempts to bring about its downfall. While thousands of anti-Nazis were beaten to a pulp in concentration camps, the Church talked of supporting the moral renewal brought about by the Hitler government...
...arousing men of good will to action. He spoke of the future not as a social scientist with a blueprint and a program, but as a novelist of "the human heart in conflict with itself"-as he said when he received the No bel Prize. Thus his hopes are implicit in the psychology of the characters he created and in the moral judgments he requires the reader to make. And what he seemed to hope was that out of the heart in conflict, out of the crisis of conscience, could come a new reverence for the land...
Matson has a wonderful way of avoiding direct statements: "However, the most significant (and unintentional) tendency of Comte's pre-behavioral science, together with that of the Saint-Simonians generally, was what Albert Salomon has called the 'totalitarian potentiality' implicit in its simultaneous cerebreation of society and nullification of the individual...
Perhaps the most compelling reason for Gordon's retreat was an implicit U.S. threat to retaliate. Had the 20% tax taken effect, the U.S. was prepared to raise its tax on the repatriated dividends of Canadian-owned subsidiaries operating in the U.S. to a prohibitive 30%. That would have crimped many far-reaching Canadian companies-including Moore Corp. (business forms), Clairtone Sound Corp. (hifi equipment), Hiram Walker and Seagrams-and might have forced some of them to move their headquarters...